Sampler of Late Spring Season Wildflowers along the Mohawk Hudson Bike-Hike Trail

I have witnessed a significant “uptick” in the increase of blooming wildflowers during the past two weeks while conducting my ongoing wildflower inventory along the Mohawk Hudson Bike-Hike Trail in the City of Cohoes and Town of Colonie. Of course, things also become much greener with the emergence of leaves from seemingly all trees, shrubs, vines, forbs and grasses!

I’m inventorying an ~8-mile segment of that trail system. Kevin Kenny has created an iNaturalist project named Flowers of the Mohawk Hudson Bike-Hike Trail that is aggregating our contributions. He is inventorying a similar distance immediately west of my segment.

Thought I’d share with you some of the sights I encountered. Hope you can find an opportunity to similarly stretch your legs and view the blooming beauties now on display!

Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) – Read more about this plant in my next edition of What Wildflower Begins Blooming This Week?, which will be posted Saturday morning on 6/4/2022.

American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia)
Read more about this plant from one of my What Wildflowers Begins Blooming This Week? posts.

Dame’s Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Unfortunately, this wonderfully fragrant wildflower is an invasive species. Read more.

Gernander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) – Read more about this plant.

Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis) – Read more about this plant.

Hemlock Parsley (Conioselinum chinense) – Read more about this plant.

Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)
Read more about this plant from one of my What Wildflowers Begins Blooming This Week? posts. Look for edible ripened fruit in September and consider making some Nannyberry Butter.

Common Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum) – Read more about this member of the Iris family.

False Solomon’s-seal (Maianthemum racemosum) – Read more about this plant.

Clustered Snakeroot (Sanicula odorata) – Read more about this plant.

Alternate-leaved Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) – Read more about this plant.

Fox Grape (Vitis labrusca) – Read more about this plant.

Multi-flora Rose (Rosa multiflora) – Wonderfully fragrant like all other roses, but this one is very invasive!

Thyme-leaved Sandwort (Arenaria serpyllifolia) – Read more about this tiny plant.

Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Read more about this highly invasive plant that is displacing our native wild iris.

Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) – Read more about this beautiful, but highly invasive plant.

Hairy Beardtongue (Penstemon hirsutus) – Watch a video on how to grow these plants in your garden!

Lance-leaved Figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata) – Read more about this plant.

Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)
Read more about how to grow these native shrubs in your yard.

Round-leaved Dogwood (Cornus rugosa) – Read more about this native shrub.

Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera) – Read more about this native shrub.

Stout Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) – Read more about this member of the Iris family.

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy trails!